Thinking about Gandhi forces me to reconsider ethics not as a doctrine or rule, but as a way of shaping a life whose meaning is visible. It was then that I realised how naturally Gandhi could be read through this lens — as a figure whose ethical life itself invites aesthetic judgment. As Foucault shows in his historical study of Greek and Christian conceptions of sexuality, ethical life in ancient Greece can be evaluated in aesthetic terms. By contrast, for the Buddha, Confucius, Aristotle, Jesus, and Gandhi, ethical judgment is unintelligible apart from a long process of formation within a way of life. It is in this sense that Foucault’s idea of ethical life becomes open to aesthetic judgment by those who behold it in operation.